This is the debut full length from Chet Scott (who is behind one of our favorite drone/kraut/psych/folk outfits, RUHR HUNTER ) and James Woodhead, going under the moniker ELEMENTAL CHRYSALIS. Six tracks of haunting, lovely psychedelic drone-folk and epic funeral acoustic strum. Imagine Ennio Marricone's gloomy spaghetti western strings mixed with Alexandro Jodorowsky film score music, or a Victorian-era PINK FLOYD collaboration with a band of woodland gypsies, performing acoustic funeral doom! Hazy strum and string hum floats over environmental recordings of birdsong and chimes, while eerie, moss covered woodland drones build from piano, flutes, throat singing, dulcimer, and more, conjuring images of vast forests of fog-shrouded mushrooms.

Now to the packaging...Glass Throat has designed a beautiful, slightly oversized 6" x 6" gatefold CD package for this (and all of their other new and upcoming releases) that's somewhere between a gatefold CD digipack sleeve type thing, and an LP gatefold sleeve. It folds out to three panels with the disc held inside on a rubber hub. The inner panels are covered in beautifully drawn mushrooms in a dusky woodland scene. This sleeve design and format is quite awesome !